- past tense form of popularize.
- past participle of popularize.
popularized
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The images date back as far as the 1840s when the Daguerrotype process that popularized photography and made images printed on silver-plated copper sheets common keepsakes.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1971 and who popularized the saying “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” became famous at the dawn of the Age of Aquarius.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
A prominent AI researcher, Goertzel and DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg popularized the term “artificial general intelligence” in the early 2000s.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hosts of spiritual-minded sorts called it home: Alan Watts popularized Zen Buddhism in the ’60s, alongside poets Gary Snyder and Kenneth Rexroth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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